New Year's

Okay my friends here's sort of what I've been thinking. My house is definetly wide open. You can take a train to Oseola, Iowa (check out Amtrak.com) and I'll even pick you up. The airport to fly into would be Des Moines International Airport, which is fifteen minutes from my house. School's starts for Andrew and I (and probably anyone else with a J-term) on January 3---yes this seems ridiculous to me as well. New Year's lands on a Saturday this year, which means that we could make that weekend the focus of our little get together, but people could begin arriving as early as they wanted to. Heck, show up on Decemeber 26 and I'd be happy to see you.

Or we could just go to London. Which would probably be more fun.

In the meantime I have been traipsing all over the Midwest. I went to Michgan to visit a friend who is working there this summer. I saw Liz Wortman (my MESP roommate) in her natural habitat--Temperancce, Michgan. It was a lovely little town and her mom is rad and she even tried on the wedding gown for me. In a word it was fabulous. I was also reunited with Bonnie this weekend--we smoked the sheesha, but it was a crappy pipe and so I had to call Barrett to get help, he really is a wealth of information. I know you are all jealous of me, but really what can you do about it?

Oh yeah, to the people who Margaret mentioned in her last blog--who can rendezvous in Minneapolis in one week's time. I am moving Marky in on Thursday and Friday of next week. Can we all see each other on Thursday night? I think that would be ideal. But we can swing Friday if that works better. I'll be in touch.

Josiah, so sorry to hear about your uncle. I'll be praying for you and wanted to remind you that we all love you a lot.

Alright, I those are all the vitals. Hopefully I'll see some of you soon and the rest of you just soon after that.

Much Iowa Love...